How to Use coincident in a Sentence

coincident

adjective
  • Also due out: the final reading of Japan’s leading and coincident indexes for March and convenience store sales for April.
    Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 21 May 2017
  • But the coincident publication of these two papers, each plausible in itself, is a useful reminder of the requirement, in science, to check the work.
    The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Later in the day, the nation's leading and coincident indexes for July are also slated to be released.
    Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Yet at the same time, coincident with this, there were the Dutch elections and the Dutch ended up hand counting their ballots because they were concerned about potential foreign intervention.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The board’s coincident index, designed to reflect current economic conditions, rose 0.2% in March from the prior month.
    Bowdeya Tweh, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The arrival of the pandemic was also coincident with flu season and the onset of seasonal allergies, which can produce an overlapping set of symptoms.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The threat level has again risen, precisely coincident with A&E’s promotion and airing of the second season of this show, now spawning even more threats—bombings, murder and acts of physical violence.
    Alexandra Bruell, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Cooke initially told the public and its regulators the incident was just a small release of fish, and primarily a business loss for the company, caused by unusually high tides coincident with the solar eclipse the same week.
    Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2018
  • There is, perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does not yield an equal and coincident benefit.
    Fox News Staff, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2018
  • In all likelihood, these events were merely a coincident — that is, there is no evidence that Tongariro and Ruapehu are directly connected at shallow levels under the volcanoes.
    Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2012
  • Perhaps most importantly, having two detectors allows them to cross-check their data, looking for coincident signals.
    Quanta Magazine, 11 Feb. 2016
  • The board’s coincident index—designed to reflect current economic conditions—rose 0.1% in September from August.
    Allison Prang, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Different things happen to different people, but aging is coincident with disability.
    Rachel Withers, Vox, 2 Dec. 2018
  • Coincident with the period of physical examination, the system of voluntary induction was inaugurated.
    Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017

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